Sacred Geography: Or, A Gazetteer of the Bible. Containing, in Alphabetical Order, a Geographical Description of All the Countries, Kingdoms, Nations and Tribes of Men, with All the Villages, Towns, Cities, Provinces, Hills, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and Islands, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures, Or Apocrypha, Including an Account of the Religion, Government, Population, Fulfilment of Prophecies, and Present Condition of the Most Important PlacesSamuel T. Armstrong, 1813 - 522 pages |
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... Egypt . The town is low , and a canal from Faoua brings the waters of the Nile , during the inunda- tion into reservoirs , which is pre- served for use through the year . It is said this canal is the only circumstance , which makes Al ...
... Egypt . The town is low , and a canal from Faoua brings the waters of the Nile , during the inunda- tion into reservoirs , which is pre- served for use through the year . It is said this canal is the only circumstance , which makes Al ...
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... Egypt . Now go and smite Amalek , and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not , but slay both man and woman , infant and suckling , ox and sheep , camel and ass . " Saul marched , therefore , against the Amalekites ...
... Egypt . Now go and smite Amalek , and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not , but slay both man and woman , infant and suckling , ox and sheep , camel and ass . " Saul marched , therefore , against the Amalekites ...
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... Egypt . Moses in the book of Genesis xiv , 7 , relates , that in Abraham's time , long before the birth of Amalek , the son of Eliphaz , the five confeder- ate kings carried the war into Amalek's country , about Ka- desh ; and into that ...
... Egypt . Moses in the book of Genesis xiv , 7 , relates , that in Abraham's time , long before the birth of Amalek , the son of Eliphaz , the five confeder- ate kings carried the war into Amalek's country , about Ka- desh ; and into that ...
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... Egypt . The Mahometans reduce these forty years to forty days . One of their poets sarcastically says of the Jews , they are always wan- dering in a desert . ARABIA , a celebrated country of Asia , bounded west by the Red Sea , and the ...
... Egypt . The Mahometans reduce these forty years to forty days . One of their poets sarcastically says of the Jews , they are always wan- dering in a desert . ARABIA , a celebrated country of Asia , bounded west by the Red Sea , and the ...
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... Egypt , of Rome and Carthage , have been polluted with human gore . The Arabs long continued the practice . In the third century , a boy was annually sacrificed by the tribe of the Dumatians ; and a royal captive was impi- ously ...
... Egypt , of Rome and Carthage , have been polluted with human gore . The Arabs long continued the practice . In the third century , a boy was annually sacrificed by the tribe of the Dumatians ; and a royal captive was impi- ously ...
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